CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
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quoted, must not be confounded with another from the same 
locality. The drupes are larger and more oblong than in the 
following species ; the putamen, transversely cuneate-oblong, is 
10 lines long, 7 lines broad, and 5 lines thick. 
4. Limacia distincta, nob. ; — ramulis ferrugineo vel ochraceo 
tomentosis ; foliis lanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis, cuspidato- 
mucronatis, imo longe 3-nerviis, supra lucidis, glabris, reticu- 
latis, subtus opacioribus, nervis venisque transversis promi- 
nentibusj petiolo tereti, ferrugineo tomentoso, apice sub- 
tumido; paniculis cJracemosis, 1-3, supra-axillaribus, tomen- 
tosis, petiolo triplo longioribus ; ramis paucifloris : ? solitariis, 
paulo brevioribus. — Malacca, v. s. in herb. Hook., ^ (sub 
nom. L. oblonga), Mergui et Malacca (Griffiths) ; ? sine loco 
(Griffiths) . 
The leaves of this species are 5 inches long, 1^ inch broad; 
petiole 10 lines long. The cJ peduncles are inserted on the stem 
at a distance of 3 lines above each petiole, and are 2-4 inches 
long ; their three-flowered brancblets are 3 lines long. The 
$ panicles are 2 inches long, their branches 4 lines, each bearing 
4-5 bracteated 1-flowered pedicels. The drupe is nearly globu- 
lar, and much shorter than in the preceding species, being 
6 lines in diameter, on a stipitate support 1 line long, at the 
base of which are two small abortive ovules. The putamen is 
nearly orbicular, 5 lines in diameter, and 4 lines thick ; it has 
a large discoid convex condyle, which is perforated by a small 
transverse foramen on each side, opening into the two hollow 
chambers about which the cell of the seed is circumscribed. 
The seed is in form nearly annulai’, flattened on its dorsal and 
ventral sides ; a portion of the integument in the middle of the 
ventral face, with the raphe attached, penetrates to a consider- 
able depth into the septum that divides the two hollow chambers 
of the condyle. The embryo, which is nearly cyclical, is 12 lines 
long, uniformly J line broad, ^ line thick, its incumbent coty- 
ledons being four times the length of the radicle, which points 
to the style in the upper horn of the cell. 
5. Limacia inornata, nob.; — ramulis subflexuosis, teretibus, 
ferrugineo tomentosis; foliis elliptico-oblongis, acuminatis, 
mucronatis, imo trinerviis, utrinque glabris, reticulatis, sub- 
tus pallidioribus, costa media petioloque tenui ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus ; racemis plurimis, supra-axillaribus, 3-4, fasci- 
culatis, gracilibus, tomentosis, folio longioribus vel aequilongis ; 
floribus minutis. — Singapoor, v. s. in herb. Hook. ^ (Lobb). 
The leaves are 2| inches long, 1 inch broad ; the slender pe- 
